Mary Stanton

Mary Stanton (born 1947) is an American author most famous for her eight-volume children's fantasy series Unicorns of Balinor, about a young princess who must return to her kingdom to regain all of her memories, her throne, and to return peace to her world.

She also wrote three scripts for the TV cartoon Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders, including the episode Song of the Rainbow. Under the pseudonym Claudia Bishop she is the author of fourteen mystery novels in the Hemlock Falls series published by Berkley Prime Crime, two novels in the Casebooks of Dr. Mckenzie mystery series, and the senior editor of three mystery story anthologies: Death Dines At Eight-Thirty, Death Dines In, and A Merry Band of Murderers.